BOOK ONE -- Living in the Bonus
Roundin which I establish the diary as a way
to communicate with my brothers living in the south. I'm dying but Jimmy
and I have created a legacy which will live on after I'm gone. A musical
called THE LAST SESSION. There's no chance that it will go anywhere. After
all, thousands of musicals are stacked up in agent's and producer's offices
waiting to get produced. So I keep to a simple dream: To see it once before
I die.

BOOK TWO -- The Tarzan YearsAfter having unexpectedly cheated death
and starring in a workshop of my musical, I learn that I'm going to live
after all. But what does that mean exactly? And how much time DO I have?
Having burst into the Bonus Round, I quickly make a CD and we head for
New York thanks to Don, a diary reader in El Paso.

BOOK THREE -- The Lazarus EffectThe rush of new life is intoxicating.
A actual New York production looms and the diary begins to become what
one reader labeled "an autobiography in progress" which reflects on days
of yore.

BOOK FIVE -- The Lazarus ReintegrationTrying to fit back into society -- but
new medical problems begin interfering. Unfortunately, the new problems
are not diagnosed. The New York summer is hot and the struggle is taking
a toll (sky-high blood sugar), undiagnosed. Does my irritability and emotional
roller coaster show in my diary entries?

BOOK SIX -- Fantasy, Faith & A Runaway
TrainMoving to Off-Broadway. Profiled in the
New York Times. Trying to keep up with the thing that's been set in motion.
Big fantasies are fulfilled but something else is going horribly wrong.
Jimmy and I break up, but I'm too humiliated to talk about it in the diary.
After all, we're a "perfect couple." Right?

BOOK SEVEN -- Reconstructing SteveWe are reconstructing Steve because Steve
is now falling apart and the New York production closes. The medical diagnosis
is finally made but it's too late to repair the personal damage. Separated,
we both hit rock bottom emotionally but I still cannot talk about it. Still,
I meet Dickie, who all but saves my life.

BOOK EIGHT -- The Creation MachineThe divorce fails. We start picking up
the pieces; finding each other again. I finally confess all and just when
we think the show is dead, a brilliant hope suddenly appears on the horizon.

BOOK NINE -- Life's A Beach (And Then
You Open)A glorious new production of The Last
Session opens at the Laguna Playhouse to rave reviews. The RENT fans find
us and become TLS fans. And the diary morphs temporarily a backstage fan
notebook.

BOOK ONE -- Sunset SupermanThe Laguna production moves to Sunset
Blvd. in Los Angeles. Suddenly the "impossible" musical is winning awards
and we are making acceptance speeches in front of big rooms full of celebrities.